BSc (Hons) Psychology
University of Hertfordshire
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Campus location
Hatfield, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
3 - 6 years
Pace
Full time, Part time
Tuition fees
GBP 13,450 *
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* international students full time, part time £1680 per 15 credits / UK students full time £9250, part time £1155 per 15 credits / EU students full time £13450, part time £1680 per 15 credits
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Introduction
"Due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic, examinations may be replaced by an alternative form of assessment during the academic year 2021/2022. Please refer to the Programme Specification on these pages for further details."
Why choose this course?
Taught by published authors and international researchers. We recently celebrated 50 years of psychology at Herts, so you’ll benefit from our extensive experience in teaching and research.
You’ll join our strong and vibrant community. We support one another, embracing diversity and inclusion. We’ll help you to grow, and much of our research examines the positive impact that psychology can have on both people’s lives and society, including promoting physical and mental wellbeing, reducing crime, and promoting equality.
You’ll be actively engaged in research, with opportunities to regularly conduct experiments, being taught by staff with an international reputation for research. You’ll also have access to our excellent facilities, including observation laboratories, motion capture systems, and brain activity monitors.
You can shape your own studies. Starting in your second year, you begin to focus on the areas of psychology that especially interest you. We also offer a study abroad option, and in your final year you carry out your own research project. Whether it's forensic studies, educational work, or clinical psychology, the choice is yours.
You’ll increase your employability with valuable transferable skills, including the ability to think critically, analyse data and communicate effectively. Psychology graduates are highly sought after in many areas, including marketing, learning, and development roles in organisations, charities, the public sector, and consultancy. You can also gain further qualifications and work in a University as an academic psychologist.
Our course is accredited by The British Psychological Society, which is important if you want to work as a professional psychologist in a forensic, clinical, health, or educational setting. You’ll also be in the right place to study our postgraduate courses in business and clinical psychology.
What's the course about?
A major part of the course examines important theoretical issues within psychology.
For instance, to what extent are people the product of their genes or upbringing? Why do we sleep and dream? How does the brain store memories and thoughts? Why do people obey authority? We also focus on how psychology can help to transform lives and improve the world. What are the best ways to promote and improve health? How can psychological research be used to understand and predict offending behaviour? How do our brains recover from an injury? How can teachers encourage their pupils to grow in the face of adversity?
Throughout the course, you’ll gain several core skills. For example, you’ll discover how to think critically about a topic, collate and assess evidence, and present your findings. You’ll also find out how to design and conduct psychological studies. This will involve devising research questions, collecting data, using statistical tools as well as qualitative methods, and writing a laboratory report. These are all transferable skills that are highly valued by employees, and can also form a vital stepping-stone to future professional qualifications and work.
Your main campus is College Lane
This is where the creative arts, science, and health-related subjects are based. This means you’ll share the campus with future nurses, scientists, artists, and more. You can use the common rooms to relax with friends, work out in the 24-hour gym or have a drink in our on-campus pub or cafes. We also have restaurants for you to eat in or grab something on the go. Our Learning Resources Centres are open 24/7, which means you can study whenever suits you best. Want to pop over to the other campus? You can take the free shuttle bus or walk there in just 15 minutes.
This course includes the options of:
- Work placement
- Study abroad
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What will I study?
In the first year, you’ll study several key topics, including developmental, cognitive and biological psychology. You will also learn about research methods and statistical analysis, and carry out several studies and experiments.
In the second year, you’ll begin to shape your course. As well as core modules, you’ll be able to choose options that help you explore areas of interest in more depth. Some examples of options include cyberpsychology, personal construct theory and nonverbal behaviour. Some of these courses are unique to the University of Hertfordshire.
You’ll also enhance your employability by undertaking 120 hours of work experience, providing an opportunity to explore how psychology is relevant to a range of work settings. If you pass all your first and second-year modules, then you’ll be eligible to take part in our study abroad option. This is a great experience, which some of our students take up to explore different learning environments and cultural contexts and to also boost their employability.
In the final year, you’ll continue to shape your course, and we offer a wide range of options, including health psychology, cognitive neuropsychology, counselling, clinical psychology, sports psychology, forensic psychology, occupational psychology and educational psychology. You'll also work with a member of staff to design and carry out your own research project.
Level 4
- Skills for Psychologists II 15 Credits II Compulsory
- Foundations in Social Psychology II 15 Credits II Compulsory
- Foundations in Developmental Psychology II 15 Credits II Compulsory
- Foundations in Cognitive Psychology II 15 Credits II Compulsory
- Statistics for Psychologists 1 II 15 Credits II Compulsory
- Foundations in Biological Psychology II 15 Credits II Compulsory
- Methods for Psychologists 1 II 30 Credits II Compulsory
Level 5
- Psychology Work Experience Practical II 0 Credits II Compulsory
- Individual Differences II 15 Credits II Compulsory
- Statistics for Psychologists 2 II 15 Credits II Compulsory
- Social and Developmental Psychology II 15 Credits II Compulsory
- Biological and Cognitive Psychology II 15 Credits II Compulsory
- Methods for Psychologists 2 II 30 Credits II Compulsory
- Nonverbal Behaviour II 15 Credits II Optional
- Personal Construct Psychology II 15 Credits II Optional
- Cyberpsychology II 15 Credits II Optional
Level 6
- Psychology Work Experience II 15 Credits II Compulsory
- Psychology Project II 30 Credits II Compulsory
- Year Study Abroad II 0 Credits II Optional
- Health Psychology II 15 Credits II Optional
- Cognitive Neuropsychology II 15 Credits II Optional
- Counselling II 15 Credits II Optional
- Clinical Psychology II 15 Credits II Optional
- Sports Psychology II 15 Credits II Optional
- Forensic Psychology II 15 Credits II Optional
- Occupational Psychology II 15 Credits II Optional
- Educational Psychology II 15 Credits II Optional
Study abroad
An opportunity for an amazing experience, which will help make you stand out from the crowd. With more and more companies working internationally, the experience of living in another country can make a great impression on future employers.
This course offers you the opportunity to enhance your study and CV with a sandwich year abroad. The University has partnerships with over 150 universities around the world, including the USA, Canada, Asia, Africa, Australia, South America and closer to home in Europe.
If you study abroad between your second and third year of study, you’ll pay no tuition fee to the partner university and no tuition fee to us either. We’ll ask you to make your decision in your second year, so there is plenty of time to think about it.
What if I need support?
You’ll get a personal tutor throughout your studies, and our academic support services can also help with general study skills, including essay writing and presentations. You can also access subject-specific support within our LMS Academic Support Unit, and attend workshops, online tutorials and drop-in study skills sessions. We also have a Student Wellbeing centre that can help, should you experience any mental health issues.
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Career Opportunities
What's next for my career?
Postgraduate study can lead to professional careers in a wide range of areas including:
- Forensic psychology
- Clinical psychology
- Health psychology
- Educational psychology.
BPS accreditation is a hallmark of quality that is acknowledged by many employers and is also an important stepping stone if you wish to become a Chartered Psychologist. You can also continue your studies, and eventually, teach and research psychology at a University. Due to their transferable skills, psychology graduates are also highly sought after in many different sectors of society, including marketing and advertising, human resources and communications, public relations and sales, learning and development roles in organisations, criminal justice and rehabilitation, business consultancy, and management training, sports, and wellbeing, and in government agencies and public bodies.
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